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The H Roundup for the week ending 9 July

Welcome to The H Roundup. The H has listened and now presents a rapid review of the week with the most read news, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item.

Top news

This week's most popular story was a security alert on how a backdoor was spotted in vsftpd. Also: Oracle's patent problems, Firefox memory leaks, PDF rendering in JavaScript and the Brazillian government's open source office.

Feature articles

How secure is your iPhone? This week The H showed it wasn't an impregnable fortress and offered some tips on how to keep it secure. Also: Richard Hillesley looked at the history and future of OpenOffice at Apache and Thorsten Leemhuis detailed what is coming in Linux 3.0's infrastructure and architecture support.